News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers. Parent comment

Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by Biganon on Sunday September 04, 2016 @11:29PM (#12427913)
No, they don't know whether the player "null" was male or female, therefore they used the pronoun "they", which is correct.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by adwn on Monday September 05, 2016 @12:40AM (#12428144)
> the pronoun "they", which is correct

It's also highly ambiguous in this specific case (I had trouble understanding the sentence, too), and a simple "him/her" would have been preferable.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by woliveirajr on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:25AM (#12429525)
Got it (really didn't knew this use of "they").

Reading back, perhaps "the player" would be better than "they", if it was just one player having problems.

[ Parent | on HN ]